ERROR: Cookbook loaded on path (s) has invalid metadata

Question

When I run:

:$ vagrant provision 

or

 :$ vagrant up 

I have an error:

 nisevi@localhost processor (master):$ vagrant provision Using ssh deploy key of: /home/nisevi/.ssh/id_rsa ==> default: Chef 12.0.3 Omnibus package is already installed. ==> default: Running provisioner: shell... default: Running: inline script ==> default: W ==> default: : ==> default: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/multiverse amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages) ==> default: W ==> default: : Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/multiverse i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages) ==> default: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages) ==> default: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages) ==> default: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-updates_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages) ==> default: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/multiverse i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages) ==> default: W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems ==> default: Running provisioner: chef_solo... ==> default: Detected Chef (latest) is already installed Generating chef JSON and uploading... ==> default: Running chef-solo... ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:42+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge... ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:42+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 12.0.3 *** ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:42+00:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 1224 ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["role[processor]"] from CLI options ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Run List is [role[processor]] ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [opsworks_initial_setup, mysql::client, dependencies, opsworks_ganglia::client, deploy::default, ba-processor::setup, ba-processor::deploy, sidekiq::deploy, opsworks_ganglia::configure-client] ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for ubuntu1404-opsworks ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete. ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] WARN: found a directory vendor in the cookbook path, but it contains no cookbook files. skipping. ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] ERROR: Cookbook loaded at path(s) [/tmp/vagrant-chef-3/chef-solo-2/cookbooks/tad-server] has invalid metadata: The `name' attribute is required in cookbook metadata ==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1) Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete. 

Does anyone know what causes this error or what is related?

Answer 1

As the error is mentioned, you should add the name 'tad-server' file metadata.rb to this cooking. This was not necessary in the past days, so many people did not put metadata.rb in their cookbooks at all, but some tools now require this at least. All other fields in the metadata remain optional, although version recommended.

Answer 2

You need to add your cookbook name to the metadata.rb file inside the cookbook directory. I just came across this with the cook chef cookbook. Download error until I added the following line to chef-client / metadata.rb

 name "chef-client"